>> bb/112625@111751
There were all sorts of shock therapies, so why? No one officially refused them by the way, they just needed resuscitation measures, and this strains the staff and requires additional competencies from them, so they switched to lazy and non-stressing long-term treatment with neuroleptics, which is easily controlled and regulated.
Dousing cold water in the cold, electroshock, insulin shock, sulfur injections, all this was necessary in order to dull the nervous system, cause endogenous inhibition in the end. And it was more universal for them in the sense that no matter what theory or mechanism of schizophrenia, there is an irritant above some threshold - so inhibition can be provoked by it.
And they also used amphetamines, yes, for schizophrenia, but for negative symptoms.